the new player i slowed down to help

last week a genuinely new player spawned in right next to me in the first sea, clearly lost, kept running into the same low level enemy and dying over and over. instead of just leaving them there i slowed down and walked them through it. told them to stop panic eating fruits and just level their sword up first, showed them where the easier quests were, explained why they kept getting bodied. by the end of the session they hit a level theyd been stuck under for a whole hour and you could genuinely feel how happy they were. they added me as a friend after. thats honestly the whole reason i play these big games, we all started somewhere and someone slowed down to help me once too. paying that forward is the best part of a community like this one.