Dark Urge question

[plasticsoda]

I've seen some Dark Urge gameplay from youtube and it is rather gruesome. Does the game force me to kill the bard or do I get a choice? I want to play it solely for the story line, don't want to be evil tough

[ADHSteve]

Originally posted by plasticsoda:

I've seen some Dark Urge gameplay from youtube and it is rather gruesome. Does the game force me to kill the bard or do I get a choice? I want to play it solely for the story line, don't want to be evil tough

Your first kill is forced. Everything else will be optional. Don’t worry, the first kill doesn’t really matter in the grand scheme (even if you want to be a good guy).

[GrandMajora]

Yes, you're forced to kill her. But you can ask Withers to bring her back.

I did not do this option, because A) I was playing a fully committed Dark Urge, and B) wasn't quite sure how she'd react to the situation.

[Sister of Silence]

That one is unavoidable.

[Rex is back, baby!]

Originally posted by plasticsoda:

I've seen some Dark Urge gameplay from youtube and it is rather gruesome. Does the game force me to kill the bard or do I get a choice? I want to play it solely for the story line, don't want to be evil tough

You can resist the urge everytime BUT the bard incident.

[Doomvora]

You are forced to kill A Bard (also technically Timbers), and you typically have to jump through hoops to choose which one.

But everything else is avoidable.

[ゲンナリドゥ]

You cant resurrect her

[ADHSteve]

Fun fact: if you kill all the Tieflings before you get the Alfira cutscene you’ll instead get a Dragonborn bard showing up.

[Lani]

There's some leeway in who you kill that first time.
But Larian has a backup victim if you figure out how to prevent the first one from showing up at your camp, and you will end up killing that one.
It's the Inciting Incident of that story arc and thus required.
After that you can avoid murdering other people.

[plasticsoda]

Originally posted by 根納羅:

You cant resurrect her

Do I get locked out of further interactions in the party or at Baldur's Gate? i'm considering playing the Urge because the game deleted 10 hours of gameplay of my 40hr playthrough and i'm so frustated that I want to start over, but I feel I can only do everything again If I add a spin on it as to not get bored of doing the same ♥♥♥♥ again

[Faefu]

to understand Dark Urge is to understand your character's storyline from Balgur´s Gate 1.

in Baldur´s Gate 3 you wake up on some random ship with memory loss.
you are feeling strange urges within you, but to understand that you might want to give Baldur's gate 1 a go for the lore.

Heroes are not born, they are made.