Dark Hall of Teeth

Alexy woke up, not knowing where he was.
Moments ago, he was still inside one of the Harvester's Threshers, strapped to the bed and either blinded by burning light whenever the vehicle was moving, or left in the dark so the Darkness of the Halls would take away more and more from him. And he wasn't the only one in there. Possibly a hundred other people shared his fate, including a kid that was strapped next to him. He tried to cheer the child up, but with every harvest, his strength left him.

The last thing he could remember from before he woke up, was the fact that they stopped again, and once again, he and other victims were left in the dark. This time, the Darkness was biting at their skin, taking parts of it. That was until the screams coming from the outside reached their ears and someone knocked on the lid of the thresher. Then, they saw something most of them didn't expect to see anymore, the lid opening. And as the light, normal, not the blinding one started pouring inside of the thresher, was the moment when he suddenly woke up here.
But where was "here"? He made an attempt to stand up, trying not to lean against anything with any of the spots where he was missing pieces of skin. It still was hard, as one of the Halls they went through during the harvest did something to his legs. And so he stumbled, and the moment his knees fell to the ground, they hit the hard and sharp floor that dug right into them in a few places. Alexy screamed. He couldn't see them properly, but he understood what the floor was made out of. It was the human teeth, just like in the first Hall the harvest began. But if that was truly the same Hall, then how did he get in here?

Dark Hall of Teeth is located fairly far away from most well-known settlements. Theoretically, it was one of the safest Halls among Dark Halls, as the amount of light needed to counteract the Darkness within it is at the lowest possible level, and the teeth that form the walls and ceiling of the Hall are reflective enough that they carry the light coming from the gates leading outside of it deep into the Hall, potentially protecting most of the people that enter there, even the ones without any light sources.

Tooth meadows

The whole surface of this Hall is covered with human teeth that form a landscape resembling a meadow with soft, irregular hills. A lot of them are covered with toothgrass but in the spots where it has been completely picked, the area looks more like a desert dune. The teeth are so closely packed that walking on them is close to walking on a gravel pathway, though some of them tend to be really sharp, and walking without any footwear or tripping is ill-advised as any sort of friction against their surface tends to end up with cuts and even lacerations in case of a bad fall on the spot with many canines.

Toothgrass

Toothgrass is a plant native only to this Hall. It starts to grow wherever teeth that make the landscape of the Hall form a small mound in places where they pile up. Once a mound is big enough, a tooth-colored grass starts to grow out of it. It is sharp but also really durable. If harvested correctly, a process during which all the teeth that formed the mound will be ripped out with the plant, something that will make the spot forever barren and the teeth that formed it unable to be recovered, the plant can be separated into threads that form it by rubbing it on its blunt side between the hands. Those threads can then be woven together to create really resistant and durable elastic fabric. Said fabric can be used to produce an armor that is resistant to slashes and partially resistant to weapons that need thrusting to deal damage, but most hits that exert a large force over a large area tend to make the fabric snap into sharp mineral splinters.

The route of Harvest Festival

Unluckily enough, despite being one of the safer Halls or maybe because of it, the Dim Hall of Teeth is one of the stops used by Harvesters during their Harvest Festivals. Using their Threshers, they will bring their prisoners in here and expose them to the bites of Darkness until they lose all or almost all teeth. Meanwhile, another group of harvesters, one that had already set up their base camp in this Hall, of which there are few, will look around for the places where the Hall incorporated new teeth into itself bringing the fresh toothgrass to life. Since the grass doesn't grow everywhere where the teeth appear, harvesters didn't turn this Hall as barren as they tend to do with most of them.

While traversing the Hall, hoping not to be noticed and recaptured by any harvesters, with barely any light to guide him, Alexy managed to avoid any other possible dangers, if there were any in here. He managed to reach one of the walls of the Hall, and followed it, hoping that it would lead to any gate outside. But he didn't walk far before he noticed a tall, robed figure moving around the area. An Archivist! Surely, they would know the safest way out of here. And if they were one of the friendly ones, they might even escort him towards the gate leading to one of the settlements. If not for his injuries, Alexy would break into a sprint towards them. But in his state, he had to rely on limping towards them.
Not knowing that he was walking into the mouth of a beast

Location under

Dark Halls

Other names:
Tooth fields
Level of light needed:
Dark - the weakest possible light, even barely noticeable by human eyes is capable of protecting someone from the Darkness here.
Light coverage area:
Only a few centimeters of body
Hunger frequency:
5 second
”Bite size”:
1 tooth. When it comes to children, it will pick out the baby teeth and the adult teeth that haven't yet grown out at random.
Hunger sensation:
The sensation of something biting on one's teeth and gums, which grows in intensity until it ends with the sharp pain of a tooth being ripped out.
Hall dangers:

Environmental:

Sharp floors, any fall will most certainly

cause wounds if the skin isn't protected

Living:

Groups of Harvesters, Mimics,

some of the fauna, especially tooth

fairies

Archivist of the room

Archivist status: Dead

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Killed by Harvesters, as it interrupted their Harvest Festivals, this Archivist used to be both helpful when it came to finding one's teeth and often protected people when some creatures decided to hunt them. It wore an Archivist's cape the color of a bone with multicolored patterns resembling possible colors of teeth.
The current location of its cape is unknown.

"Limbs"

According to the stories of the ones protected by this Archivist, it could produce a giant tongue growing from underneath its cape, around the area where its torso should be. When fighting against various threats, it used to grab them with this "limb" and then grind them against the floor covered with sharp teeth.
The tongue was dexterous enough that it could be used to hold things as well as to point when asked for directions.

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Fauna

There are some creatures native to this hall and other halls where teeth might show up frequently. There are molar hermits, crablike beings that cover their shells and pincers with teeth making them both more durable and sharper. They can be as small as a human hand and can grow up to be 1 meter tall and long. There are canine balls, whose name describes them perfectly, as they are round, full of canines both in their mouths and all over their bodies, and tend to charge and jump at their prey, but luckily, unless provoked, they are too small to consider attacking humans. There are tooth-eating root lurkers, that tend to hide underneath the bigger meadows. And finally there are tooth fairies, but the less is spoken about those terrifying and somewhat sapient amalgams of meat and teeth, the better.