You could send her away you know, knowing who you are, and what you are capable of.
Thus the reason why there is "
unavoidable scripted outcome" in the title. It does not matter whether you forcefully send her away because the Dark Urge still hunts her down during sleep. There is no way to avoid killing her through legit roleplay, unless the player meta-games, which no normal person will think of doing initially.
To make matters worse, there actually is
a uniquely made NPC just for the purpose of this scene that shows up and gets killed, but it requires the player to meta-game and knock Alfira out before going to camp. WHY in the world the only way of saving Alfira or getting an actual unique NPC made exclusively for this scene... can only be obtained by meta-gaming the hell out of this scene I will never know. It's just terribly designed because the story recognizes these actions, but in order to get them you have to know in advance what to do.
As I said I don't mind roleplaying as Dark Urge and wouldn't be bothered at all if it was a unique NPC made specifically for this scene. But the fact that they killed a prominent NPC with her own story without any actual real input from me as a player, is why it's a serious problem. The fact that my choices don't matter whatsoever in this particular scene is why I lost interest in playing Dark Urge further as a first playthrough.
