User:Kgarrett1969

Biography
Kgarrett1969 has been a part of the Y!PP community since April of 2005 joining Puzzle Pirate shortly after the opening of Viridian. His characters can be found across all the oceans but continues to make Viridian his home and the primary focus of play.

In game he is most noted for playing the characters Hawkings, Captain of Odin's Demise, and Charun, former governor of Sakejima. In addition to his in game presence Kgarrett1969 has a strong presence in the Y!PP Forums where he is known for entering Forum based contests particularly in the area of writing where he has a reputation for being a talented writer.

In the real world Kgarrett1969 is a programmer for one of the world's largest information technology consulting and services companies. He makes his home in the city of Anderson, IN which is about fifty minutes Northeast of Indianapolis. He is a Science Fiction, Adventure and Fantasy fan as well as being an avid game player.

Puzzle Pirates Personas

 * Hawkings - Main character used on all oceans.
 * Charun - Special character used to govern Sakejima Island on Viridian.
 * Skyme - Character on all oceans primarily used for parlor gaming.
 * Koloth - Secondary character on all oceans.

YPPedia Contributions

 * Original creator of Infobox crew template.
 * Creator of a Carpentry Tutorial for the YPPedia.
 * Patron Saint of Crew Information Pages.
 * Built and tracked down all trinket versions for the Foot Brawl 2006 Trinket Color Chart

Current Yppedia projects

 * Updating all Out of Date Crew Pages including standardizing and expanding.
 * Tracking Down missing trinkets for trinket colorized templates

Forums

 * 9th Place in the 2005 Poetry Deathmatch.
 * 1st Place the Who Wants to be Hades' Governor Contest: Viridian Ocean, November of 2005.
 * Winner of five consolation prizes in the Holiday Half-Hour Homilies, December 17-18, 2005.
 * 1st Place in the 'Christmas Songs' December Doodle, December 21, 2005.
 * 1st Place in the E2 Puzzle Tutorial Contest, March of 2006.
 * 3rd Place in the Plundered Poems - Sonnet Edition, July of 2006.
 * 3rd Place in the 2006 Microfiction Deathmatch including best story for round 10 and Winner in the Bonus round.
 * Name chosen for the a building on the new ocean in the Building Naming Contest, August of 2006.
 * Winner of the Blind Ship Familiar Auction:Viridian Ocean, August 20, 2006.
 * 3rd Place in the Puzzle Pirates - The Musical, September of 2006.
 * 1st Place in the 'Expanding the Inventory' December Doodle, December 15, 2006.
 * Winner in the 'The Truth is Out There' Weekend Doodle, December 16-17, 2006.
 * Awarded an Apollo Doll by Apollo for entering all of the 2006 December Doodles.
 * 8th Place in the Author's Author Deathmatch, November 2006 - March 2007.
 * Winner in three categories of Oceanus' Shack of Zen, February 2007.
 * 3 Honorable mentions in Easter Easel, April 2007.
 * Honorable mention in Tea Time, April 2007.
 * 1 Honorable mention in Brigand King Daily Doodles, May 2007.
 * Winner in the Smells like Haiku One-Day Poetry Challenge, July 5, 2007.
 * 1st Place in the 'Questions, Questions' December Doodle, December 21, 2007.
 * Awarded a Limited Edition White Tiger and a golden Daisy by Apollo for entering all of the 2007 December Doodles.
 * Winner in the Pi Day Poetry++ Contest, March 14, 2008.
 * 1st Place in the 'Nordenx' Easter Easel, March 26, 2008.
 * Honorable mention in Cronus' Family Album, May 2008.
 * 5th Place in the "Who will be the NEXT brigand king?", April/May 2008.
 * 3rd Place in the Bernie Taupin category of Karaoke Kapers Part Duh, October 2008.
 * 1st Place in the 'Watch out for that ...' December Doodle, December 9, 2008.
 * 1st Place in the 'Unusually Festive' December Doodle, December 16, 2008.
 * Awarded a Limited Edition Gold Cat and a Gaea doll by Gaea and Apollo for entering all of the 2008 December Doodles.

Puzzle Pirates

 * Winner of over 100 skulls from Skellie frays.
 * Winner of over 75 zombie hands from Zombie frays.
 * Winner of over 50 Brigand King trinkets.
 * Listed as the Number one carpenter on the Viridian Ocean at various times.
 * Has attained Ultimates in Carpentry, Bilging, Navigation, Alchemistry, Battle Navigation, and the now defuct Sea battle
 * Winner of the Blind Ship Familiar Auction:Viridian Ocean on August 20, 2006.
 * Completely memorized the Viridian Ocean.
 * 3rd Place and Division 1 Champ in OCL Seabattle in July of 2006 as a member of the team 'Sock Rockers'.
 * 2nd Place in the Super Megatastic Carp Bake-Off, Viridian on November 11, 2006.
 * 2nd Place in The Great Scavenger Race on the Viridian Ocean on February 25-26, 2007.
 * 2nd Place in BK Fruit Frenzy Races on the Viridian Ocean on June 2-3, 2007.
 * 1st Place in Bakeoff Bonanza! on Viridian, Carpentry Division on September 30, 2007.
 * Won the fourth Ippolito to be awarded on Viridian on May 20, 2008.
 * 4th Place in Summer Games Festival of Piracy! Event Finals on Viridian, for Navigation on August 19, 2008.
 * 1st Place in Yuletide Carpentry Compeition on Viridian on the 27th of December 2008.
 * 2nd Place in Yuletide Carpentry Compeition on Viridian on the 29th of December 2008.