Ashley "pi-per" Tsun

=The First Encounter= Ashley was 11 the first time she had a brush with the Secret World, and for all intents and purposes it was a fairly lame experience. Already reclusive, slightly agoraphobic and gifted with a high level of programming ability, she spent most of her time indoors playing video games, watching movies and making her parents worried about their chances of getting grandchildren. After one such day, when she had finished watching the movie “pi” for the first time, she found herself intrigued by the concept and began to make and run a program that would calculate pi and analyze 216 digit strings in the result, plugging them into various fractal programs to search for mystic patterns. Of course, she had know idea what a mystic pattern would look like, but she figured she would know if she saw one.

The program ran for nearly an hour before the home phone lines all went dead and every computer in the house that had been connected to the internet suffered a meltdown of the motherboard. Without needing to know what was going on, her parents decided she was grounded. They took away her computer privileges and told her to go outside and play, which she thought should have been outlawed under the Geneva convention. Still, she went out side and hid in the dog house, and attempted to install Unix on her Gameboy, giving up after she received the message “[ERROR 3.14] – TEMPLARS+love=pi [pi]<CAKE”. She had no idea what it meant then, but now just thinks it was pretty lame.

=The Teen Years (a study in Chaos)= Life proceeded in a vaguely "normalish" fashion through Ashley's tween and teen years. She went to school as she was told she had to, avoiding contact with her peers as much as she could manage. She took online correspondence courses in Applied Chaos Theory and Mathematics. She began joining online forums and visiting chat rooms dedicated to the philosophy and practice of Chaos Magic, (which she refused to spell with the "k" - it's a redundant letter, no matter how elite it makes someone feel to use it), and as far as she was concerned, that was as social as she needed to be.

She gradually began to make a name for herself with her experiments and fascination with numbers, numerology, what she liked to call "mathemagic" and her various ways of applying these things in programing and mysticism. Around her, people both in school and on the internet began calling her the "pi-peson", a name she assumed was meant to be derogatory but as she didn't have enough time or inclination to care, she went with it, although eventually shortening it to "pi-per" Tsun, as the first "son" was also redundant.

=Present=

=Appearance=

Ashley could be considered cute, in a shy unkempt sort of way. Her hair tends to hang limply over her face, her clothes are clean but probably never been ironed in her life, and she hardly ever looks at people in the eyes, when forced to be around others at all. She's small, light, and probably a bit on the skinny side - but if you like asians that play a mean Enchanter in Everquest and don't talk much if they aren't busy enlightening you about how all you know about The Secret World was just a distraction, she's your kind of gal.

=Personality=

Ashley considers herself a guide, of sorts. She knows the Darkness is coming, and everyone is marshaling their forces, but that is not the path for her - her place is to learn the patterns and the results and to make sure that information goes where it is needed. Of course this is directly contradicted by the fact that pi-per does NOT do the whole "social" thing. She is a bit of a hermit, fairly anti-social and more than a little agoraphobic. If pi-per had her way, she would exist only on the world wide web and communicate solely that way; alas, it is not to be, so instead she makes her meetings cryptic to the point of being useless, and usually tries to keep her mind occupied throughout them on various more important tasks, such as Starcraft.

It also doesn't help things that she is truly and utterly paranoid. She has accepted early on that she was a pawn of higher powers, and that the information they give her is solely "need to know". She eventually convinced herself that this information is also completely false - a red herring given to her to keep her from asking the REAL questions.

=Family/Friends=

Ashley still has both her parents, (who have no knowledge of her involvement in The Secret World, and really just wish she would give up her silly computer fascination and find a nice Korean boy and give them grandchildren already), 3 out of 4 grandparents, and a puppy named Pez. Also a small raven has taken to following her around; she has begun to feed it, but hasn't decided on a name yet.