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木卫二上的异类和怪人们

各位鱼食们好！

时光飞逝，正如我们这周早些时候宣布的，潜渊症将于本月十三号宣发正式版本，所以是时候看看我们派系大修的剩余内容了！

之前的几周，我们介绍了木卫二联盟和木星分离主义者，但它们当然不是大家可以加入的唯二组织。木卫二上还有另外两个神秘组织栖身：画皮教派和小丑圣母之子。

画皮教派

画皮教派给人的第一影响就是标准的死亡崇拜邪教团，没有完全说错：他们的许多行为都是危害生命的，无论是联盟还是分离主义者都不想与他们产生瓜葛。

“我和人民认为你们是恐怖组织，谋杀，食人，传播瘟疫皆汝等皆犯。”

——Christopher Greene，雅科夫·苏布拉的审判官

教团崇拜着外星生物“萼形体内转续拟寄生物”，俗名“画皮寄生虫”，该生物会寄生在无察觉受害者的咽喉处，最后将他们转变成毫无理智的怪物。听着并不像是任何人会自愿选择的信仰，然而画皮教派相信画皮是木卫二人类生存下去的关键。

被画皮寄生后，人体会发生不可思议的变化，能够忍受木卫二渊洋的压力和寒冷。画皮教派所祈愿研究的正是这种转化。他们确信画皮是进化的下一阶段，是人类克服生理极限走向兴盛的机会。他们的目标是达成真正的共生，人体既有画皮赋予的强大抗性，又不至于在过程中失去理性。他们并非追求死亡，他们是想要成为木卫二超人。

“它将使你超越肉体凡胎！”

——后巷里的幻灯片

尽管他们的信仰不无高尚之处，但教会的历史却充斥着自私下作的手段：罪行包括强行将画皮注入非自愿或未意识到的人体内，活祭，吸毒，谋杀和食人。教会的领袖之一，疯狂而著名的雅科夫·苏布拉甚至在公堂审判期间吃下了一只宠物鬣蜥。

苏布拉起初想将教派建成一种另类的音乐会，然而无论是影响范围还是严重性上看，它随后的发展却大相径庭。教派已不在公开场合进行越轨行为，如今他们的步道活动转入地下。即使并未被人接受，这也在最近的几年增加了木卫二社会对他们的容忍度。

“我们凡人岂能妄自揣度画皮圣主的大能！”

——（1024：我不知道arch-ecclesiast什么意思有知道的请评论）雅科夫-苏布拉，拱门传道书

小丑圣母之子

也许木卫二上最让人迷惑的派系就是小丑们了。冰洋的广大和艇内的幽闭足以让任何人发疯，但让有些人戴上橡胶红鼻头，对着路人鸣自行车喇叭的，真的是心理问题吗？他们是给雇来用作提升士气无用功的表演者吗？还有到底谁是小丑圣母？

“也许该对他们注意点，他们在顶楼养了些爬行者，你懂吗？”

——一位在意的住民

小丑们，或小丑圣母之子们似乎从对这些问题保持沉默之中得到了极大的乐趣。事实上，生活中事无巨细，他们大都能找着乐子。即使周遭时时刻刻动荡不安，他们仍处变不惊，而且尽管他们滑稽的行为持续地惹恼着其他人，他们似乎并没有什么实实在在的威胁。他们受到其他派系的嫌弃，不过小丑圣母之子并未与任何人敌对。

虽然你不太可能从小丑口中得到直白的答案，但他们不着边际的行为之中似乎确实有点说得通的地方，譬如某些重复出现的短句和某些他们共有的概念。似乎他们知晓什么其他木卫二人类所不知道的东西。你的耐性足以听见小丑圣母告诉她孩子们的话语吗？小丑哲学令人如此匪夷所思，以至于它扩张了宗教的概念，不过既然小丑们唱的是同一个调调，其中必有玄只因。（发现死人脸上戴着的面罩里面塞了个焊瓶：小丑竟在我身边；拿起焊枪爆炸了发现自己把丢了的氧气瓶塞在了焊枪里面：小丑竟是我自己）

“即使我告诉你小丑圣母是三磅子滑蛋派也没有意义，不是吗？你还需要提高姿势水平。”

试试看：想象你这样在木卫二上生活，冷潮入体无法低落你心，辐射掠地不能吓破你胆，联盟和分离主义者间无休止的冲突只是你声纳上的一个小点儿罢了，而你只需要捏着喇叭达拉崩吧嗒嘀嗒嘀嗒嘀嗒，哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈......

派系大修：新物品，商人和更多

尽管木卫二上的多数站点要么被联盟控制着，要么被分离主义分子控制着，你还是能找着属于小丑圣母之子和画皮教派的小小庇护所。与联盟和分离主义者一样，木卫二异类们也拥有他们自己的特殊商人，基于你和各派系的关系，他们售卖各色道具和服务。

说到道具，派系大修将加入大量有意思的派系专属道具，只有忠实追随者才能购买。比如大家喜欢的脏弹将以木星分离主义分子专属道具的形式回到游戏中（1024：以前经常用这玩意把自己炸沉......）。当然，更新也会加进许多船新道具，，像40毫米口径核弹啦，莫洛托夫鸡尾酒啦，新宠物啦，可以安全地和画皮共生的工具啦，和额......香蕉（1024：连甘蔗都种不出为什么会有香蕉啊喂）。小心别踩着自己扔的皮儿了。

除了道具和商人，画皮教派和小丑圣母也得到了专属的故事线和任务，完成任务即可得到相应的奖励和派系声望。比如你可以和画皮教派一道研究达成“飞升”的方法，或者你可以试着弄明白小丑圣母之子在做什么，为何这么做。

言而总之，潜渊症1.0将让游戏焕然一新，我们在前两篇博文中已经描述了诸多。请读读它们，也请期待3月13日潜渊症1.0推出前的更多前瞻！

以下原文：

OUTCASTS AND ECCENTRICS OF EUROPA

Hello -everyone!

Time is running short: as we announced earlier this week, Barotrauma is coming out of Early Access on the 13th of this month, so it’s time to sneak peek our way through the rest of the faction overhaul!

In previous weeks, we’ve written about the Coalition and the Separatists, but of course, they are not the only groups you can choose to side with. Europa is also home to two more mysterious factions: the Church of Husk and the Children of the Honkmother.

THE CHURCH OF HUSK

The husk church may at a glance seem like the garden variety death cult, and that’s not altogether inaccurate: much of what they do is entirely unwholesome, and neither the Coalition nor the Separatists want anything to do with the Church.

“I, AND THE PEOPLE, CALL YOU A TERRORIST CULT GUILTY OF MURDER, CANNIBALISM AND PANDEMICS.”

– CHRISTOPHER GREENE, PROSECUTOR OF EUROPA V. JACOV SUBRA

The Church worships the alien species Velonaceps calyx, more commonly known as the husk parasite, which makes itself at home in an unsuspecting victim’s throat, eventually turning them into a mindless monster. That does not sound like a fate anyone would choose willingly, but the Church believes the husk holds the key to humanity’s survival on Europa.

As the husk takes over, the body undergoes a dramatic transformation which allows it to withstand the pressure and coldness of the Europan ocean. This transformation is what the Church pursues, through prayer and study. They believe the husk is the next step in human evolution, a chance to overcome our physical limitations and thrive. Their goal is a true symbiotic relationship, where the husk grants the body incredible resilience, but the host’s mind is not lost in the process. It’s not death they seek… it’s transcendence.

“IT CAN TAKE YOU WAY BEYOND THE LIMITS OF THAT FLESHBAG YOU CALL YOUR BODY!”

– OVERHEARD IN A BACK ALLEY

While not without nobility in their beliefs, the Church’s history has seen many sordid turns: allegations have been made of forcible communion to join an unwilling or unaware human with the husk, of ritual sacrifice, drug use, murder, and cannibalism. One of the Church’s leaders, the notorious and wildly colorful Jacov Subra is even accused of the unlawful eating of a pet iguana while standing trial before a court of law.

Subra initially popularized the Church as an “alternative music festival”, but it has outgrown that facade many times over, both in scope and seriousness. Their days of public debauchery seem to be in the past, and their sermons are now held in more privacy. This has allowed them to become, if not quite accepted, at least more broadly tolerated in Europan society in recent years.

“WE, MERE MORTALS, CAN AT BEST ONLY GLIMPSE THE GREAT HUSK, THE GIVER AND THE TAKER!”

– JACOV SUBRA, ARCH-ECCLESIAST

THE CHILDREN OF THE HONKMOTHER

Perhaps the most baffling of all the Europan factions are the clowns. The ocean is vast enough and the submarines claustrophobic enough to drive anyone mad, but is it really psychological troubles that drive some citizens to don red rubber noses and honk bikehorns at passers-by? Are they entertainers, hired in some misguided attempt at lifting morale? And who in the heavens is the Honkmother?

“YOU MIGHT WANT TO KEEP AN EYE ON THEM. THEY’VE GOT SOME CRAWLERS IN THE ATTIC, IF YOU GET WHAT I MEAN”

– A CONCERNED CITIZEN

These are questions that the clowns, or the Children of the Honkmother, seem to take great pleasure in not answering. In fact, they seem to take pleasure in most things in life, large or small. They are unfazed by the ever-present turmoil around them, and while their antics may cause no end of grief to other people, there doesn’t appear to be any real menace behind them. They are despised by all the other factions, yet the Children of the Honkmother call no one enemy.

While it’s unlikely you’ll ever get a straight answer out of a clown, it does appear there is some consistency to their ramblings, some recurring turns of phrase, some concepts they all share. It’s almost as if they know something other Europans don’t. Are you patient enough to listen, and hear what the Honkmother tells her children? The clown philosophy is so obscure it stretches the notion of religion, yet they all sing the same tune, so there must be something to it.

“I CAN TELL YOU THE HONKMOTHER IS THREE POUNDS OF CUSTARD PIE, BUT THAT DOESN’T MEAN ANYTHING TO YOU, DOES IT? YOU NEED MORE TRAINING.”

And maybe there is: imagine living on Europa, only the cold dampness of it doesn’t depress you, the encroaching radiation doesn’t scare you, and the incessant rivalry of the Coalition and the Separatists is barely a blip on your sonar. Just honk, honk, honk your horn, gently down the stream! Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily…

FACTION OVERHAUL: NEW ITEMS, VENDORS, AND MORE

Even though the outposts of Europa are primarily controlled by either the Coalition or the Separatists, you can find smaller hideaways within them for followers of the Honkmother and the Church of Husk, respectively. Like the Coalition and Separatists, the outcasts of Europa also get their own special vendors, with different items or services for sale based on your reputation with each faction. 

Speaking of items, the faction overhaul will bring with it a multitude of exciting faction-specific items for dedicated followers to purchase. For example, a fan favorite, the Dirty Bomb will return to the game as a Jovian Separatist exclusive item. Of course, the update will also add multiple completely new items to the game, including but not limited to:  40mm nukes, molotov cocktails, a new pet, tools for peaceful coexistence with your husk symbiote and…bananas. Be mindful of where you discard the peel.

In addition to items and vendors, the Church of Husk and the Children of the Honkmother are also getting their own storyline and missions, with rewards tied to completing the missions and gathering reputation with the factions. For example, you can work with the Church of Husk and help them research ways to achieve “ascension”, or you can try to make sense of whatever it is the Children of the Honkmother do and why. 

Overall, Barotrauma 1.0 will bring with it a whole host of new features, many of which we have already detailed in the two earlier blog posts. Make sure to read through them as well, and look forward to one more sneak peek before the release of Barotrauma 1.0 on March 13!