Goodwill Well
Purpose / Function
A kind of storage well, often outdoors but covered with a simple roof, tarp or animal skin, which is publicly shared by a community for repurposing tools and materials. Usually all assets offered up would have to be donated, or a small fee must be paid to guards and clerical officers who manage the wells.
Defenses
Town or community guards are often posted around these structures to ensure that theft of materials and assets from the well not occur, especially in societies with low faith in their neighbors. Depending on the community's needs and abilities, these can be either paid private citizens or town guards, or entirely volunteer watchmen. In times of increased threat from invaders or looters, guards stationed often grow in number. In addition to accountability against thieves, local communities tended also to charge guards with keeping records of those who used assets, when they used them, and what they took and donated.
History
Use of these structures, as storage wells, started in the period of Early Post-Upheaval Scarcity. As conditions of scarcity waned, however, these wells have become received less use and often had been demolished to repurpose the land on which they are situated. Nowadays, in highly communal societies where one tends to trust one's neighbors, and where scarcity has waned, goodwill wells have retained a position of fondness in the eyes of the culture which still maintains them, often in celebration of goodwill festivals.
Tourism
Observance of Goodwill Festivals.
Alternative Names
Public cache
Type
Room, Common, Cellar
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