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Random Acts of Kindness in MapleStory

I have played this game for about 7 years now, and I can say that I have generally been a pretty nice person in game. I have noticed that now I have a level 200 character and another at level 199 and 95%... I have become one of those elitist jerks I had always hated when I was a noob.

Yesterday was a really good day for me, I had done very well on a history exam, and had made about 1.5b selling stuff in the fm. I was browsing the fm when a level 60 kaiser came up to me and very politely asked me for fame, I just jumped along on my merry way as if I had not seen what he said. About 30 second went by and I realized what I had become. There was no way I was going to use this fame for anything important, so I famed him and logged off as soon as I did, after saving his name. He had about 8 fame and it was obvious he needed fame to wear some sort of dark gear. I went onto another 11 characters (all with taco in their name... its sorta my thing on ms) as I logged in he would type things such as "I FRIKKEN LOVE TACOS!" as I famed him up to 20 fame. After the last one I sat down for a moment on my level 200 bow master and talked to him for a moment. He told me that he had been asking people in the fm and instead of fameing him they were defameing him. He told me he didn't think anyone in this game would be so nice. He even told me that he had tears in his eyes. After doing well on an exam, making tons of money in ms... the highlight of my day was making some noob in the fm cry.

We can all remember what it is like to be a noob in this game, but for some of us lucky ones we can remember someone who preformed a random act of kindness for us. It is often easy to get lost in all of the jerks of this game, getting ks'd out of a map, being bullied by hackers, or even getting scolded for just being new to the game.

Another thing that sort of warmed my heart was today, I was afk in leafre after hitting level 199 on my kaiser and some random guy came up to me and said "Early Grats!" famed me and walked away. Things like this just... I dont know... they help remember how nice people can be.

My whole point of making this post is to say thank you to anyone who has ever done a random act of kindness in maplestory. It doesn't matter if you are a pro or a noob, you can always do something to brighten the day of a fellow mapler, I promise you will not regret it

Feel free to share your stories of random acts of kindness here, I would love to read them!

TLDR - I made a random noob cry because I famed him a whole bunch only because he asked politely and it felt amazing to help him.

January 26, 2013

31 Comments • Newest first

ShadowSkillz

I usually go to ardent mill CH 1 and drop all the mastery books that isn't worth selling after a MMB run. Its fun too see the noobs race to pick up all the books cause they can sell the books or use for themself.

Reply January 26, 2013
GraveJokerR

Was on a Pierre run today. Hat dropped, I looted it.
Party member was sad he didn't get it, so I traded him and gave him the hat, for free.

Reply January 26, 2013
grozoth

Not at all, I felt bad that I had ignored him like that. I also knew the pain of needing fame to wear a dark piece of armor, and figured he would be very happy if i gave him all the fame he needed to use it, I even famed him up to 21 just in case someone defamed him.

Reply January 26, 2013
Jamworld

so you were only nice to him to make yourself feel better? Thanks Grinch. >.<

Reply January 26, 2013
SasoriBankai

I use to give away 10k nx every Friday. I held little events or played little mini various games to choose a winner. Did 50k on Christmas. It was always something
I enjoyed doing. I only stopped because I quit playing for awhile. Also Basil doesn't allow me to post free give away challenges so it got rusty over time

Reply January 26, 2013
aalphabet2

Glad there are still people like you around. People like you that do these kind of things are the only reason why i continue to play Maplestory

Reply January 26, 2013
ImBlue1562

One day I just finished to help a guildie with some kser at skeletons (NLC ones, weird ikr o.o) , so I just started to look around the channels. I saw a ''novice'' swordman who actually needed help leveling and some damage. I offered partying him and give him HS, AB other buffs. When he reached level 30, I gave him a bunch of gelts (yeah gelts the CWKPQ ones) so he can do his job advance quickly, and get more damage if he doesn't use them all there. I helped him doing the mushroom castle quests like getting the items, helping with the bosses and those things. I got him a CD channel (empty on the exact chan we were ) and trained there until he was 55 or so. Then I got him a ludi PQ group with some guildies. He went to do his 3rd job advancement after that. I gave him around 10mill and some gear. He had to go later, he added me but the next day he started to act all mean and whatnot , like if I was his mule or whatever. Whatever I deleted him. I'm proud of helping him and I'm looking forward more people like him, ofcourse not the part when he turns mean lol

Reply January 26, 2013 - edited
grozoth

Reading these posts has been awesome! Thanks for sharing everyone <3

I have another story to share
I remember back in 2007 when I was a level 4x cleric spending my life at LPQ. I had a party that was filled with lazy jerks, and the only people who were doing most of the rooms were me and the party leader. By the end of the pq I had told my party that I wished they had been more helpful and was honestly a bit upset. The party leader looked at me said "Thank you" then famed me and left the pq area. Even though that was close to 6 years ago now I still remember her... She wore that yellow sundress nx.... I never got her name but really wish I had. Clerics get a lot of disrespect, along with priests and bishops. Don't demand your hs, ask for it nicely and thank them afterwords, they really like that x3

Reply January 26, 2013 - edited
SilverBladez

[quote=noluvnohope]This is exactly why I fame you everytime I even shy a glimpse towards you haha [/quote]

Are you serious?
Seriously dude, you made me smile.

Reply January 26, 2013 - edited
SilverBladez

I literally help tons of people everyday.
Not to toot my own horn but I just want to say that it just feels great helping people.
And I honestly think more people should be like the TS. To many people ONLY care about making profits/meso.
A lot of people get arrogant once they are ''godly'' and are Lv 200 looking down on people. (This makes me very sad).

Anyway, I get famed like 4/6 a day out of nowhere. (I'm not even joking) and I really appreciate that people do this.
Something as simple as a fame can really make someones day.

If you already have tons of meso and a lot of good equipments, can kill bosses quickly and all that...
Then why not put that to good use and help some people out. Give some HTP's away. Czak helmets.
Help people leech at LHC, help them with quests. Do zakum for them and walk with them though the JQ.

EDIT: Speaking of this. If anyone is reading this and wants a HTP or Czak helmet or whatever then you should
check out my listing below. It's free obviously.

Help some new players out and give them some pointers. Give them something to start with.
(I mostly buy every set for their class up till lv 70) <-- what does that really cost for someone with enough meso?
Nothing. Yet it makes their day and you might end up with a good friend.

I hope some people will find out it feels rewarding making a guy/girl smile after helping the.

Reply January 26, 2013 - edited
jammerz9

So I was loafing around in Hene while a mystic door event thing happened in renegades (I haven't played on that world in what feeels like ages) and I was bored and mopy so because this server is just so dead it was just me fighting Von Leon for a good 5 minutes, then outta the blue comes this level 200 Kaiser and I was like man I'm almost level 200 I wish I had the motivation to finish this character. So after we Kill Von Leon I start loafing around Hene again and I see that same Kaiser loafing around aswell ( I assume he was loafing) so I start making small talk and I tell him that I have no motivation to level this character because I dont even Have Final Blow and I cant get fillers for me to go off and zak on my lonesome (cause I have no friends) and He's like "Zak isn't gonna help you, you should be Czaking. Here let me take you on a run" so this random stranger takes me on not 1 but two Czak runs although the book didn't drop on either run I did get a free Czak run in the end and I made a new awesome friend. and after the run I told him how I have final blow 30 but not 20 and he was like "dude I could have totally bought one for you I saw one in the FM" ...True story

Reply January 26, 2013 - edited
LulzMudkipzz

There was this Aran, asking for people to help him for zakum because he needed final blow 10. I told him, "I can help you get your book!". Even though as much as I needed that book, (I've had an Aran ever since they came out) I let him loot it anyways at zakum. I felt really nice at that time because I wasn't even helping a friend sort of, just some random person in need. I would of looted it, but I told him I would let him have all the drops.

Reply January 26, 2013 - edited
kcwt

Was on my Luminous and met another Luminous in the house that you teleport to when you use the crystal. We spent about 5 minutes F6ing each other, spamming skills at each other and just jumping around the house. She was only level 6X and I was 10X so I decided to just go out of my way to help her with her quests, going all the way to ludi to kill robos and then down to omega sector to kill aliens, we spent a few hours together just questing and talking. I kept talking about how I needed rascal pieces to get the ice chair and so as a thankyou gift, she gave me all her rascal pieces (which was around 500 or so). I also decided to give her a bunch of (decent) equips that I didn't need anymore to her all for free. As I had to go, we parted ways and added each other. I felt really good and happy about what I had done.

I never saw her online again. Partly cos I kinda stopped playing after that.

I crey everyt1m3

Reply January 26, 2013 - edited
JJoestar

this dude went behind me and used waepon booster, i'm 11 and i duno what hapened but was fun

Reply January 26, 2013 - edited
jc1206

any random act of kindness, can make anyones day feel better. It's
nice to see friendly maplers still exist.

Reply January 26, 2013 - edited
Neokeoro

Idk.... I'm so bored nowadays on maple so I just walk around dropping money and stuff and whenever someone asks me for money I give them a mil.

Reply January 26, 2013 - edited
TheTrickst3r

I asked a guy at heliseum if he had some spare all cures so I could buy them off him and he gave them to me for free

Reply January 26, 2013 - edited
BonkoNana

I hs'd some people who were training for a while and helped them get to level 70

it made me feel good about myself

Reply January 26, 2013 - edited
MrDelp

Gave some mesos to players asking for mesos in the FM. Gave afew on the condition that they help others when they become better/richer in terms of wealth in the game.

Reply January 26, 2013 - edited
tnivek

I door'd a guy to aliens awhile back and got KS'd by him.

Well, so much for being nice.

Reply January 26, 2013 - edited
foolyouswear

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Reply January 26, 2013 - edited
mlklrkkr1

every now and then, i get bored of the usual grind, and decide to go to one of the lower level areas, in channel 1
if i see anyone who seems to actually be a noob, i usually give them 10m, and help them out for the next few hours with whatever they're doing

Reply January 26, 2013 - edited
divineshin

[quote=UrinalMint]doesn't seem like kindness to me....just sounds like a high level character insulting a low level one[/quote]

Tears of joy.

Reply January 26, 2013 - edited
Business

Good thread man haha!

Reply January 26, 2013 - edited
divineshin

Yesterday, someone came up to me and asked for pointers selling things. Sure, why not I thought, so I helped him along.
He said he had only been playing for four days so I bought his stock of items out for him. He was pretty happy with his first
50 mil. I buddied him and added him to guild. I added him on skype to send him a few tutorials and whatnot to get him started.
Things were going fine, until he started talking in alliance chat. He admitted to hacking/botting, so... He became dead to me.

~The end.

By Divineshin

Reply January 26, 2013 - edited
Nimaah

i love you for doing that o.o

Reply January 26, 2013 - edited
ExSaber

that was touching

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AznStatusxD

People in scania instead of helping the lower levels and unfunded with boss runs they charge them mesos to take them along. From time to time when i have free time or get bored i would make a post on basil offering to take people on free runs and they can loot what ever they needed ! Ps: I took people on a zak/hilla run 2 days ago

Reply January 26, 2013 - edited
MapleScrub

random act of kindness just happened to me
guy was quitting MS and gave me 150m
one of my best day evarr

Reply January 26, 2013 - edited
BonkoNana

aww thats sweet good on you!

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LastPerson

some guy defamed me so i defamed him back and then he called me a nob
Right now, at this moment i am terrified as he's trying to find me while i am hiding at Harmony.
bellocanians, please come and talk ):

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