heya again! decided to see what happens if I let the 1st 3 enemies in the tutorial beat me (lol), and saw that in the 3 fights when I purposefully lose, they end with the PC regaining 1 hp and reappearing all fine and dandy. the trap, on the other hand, resets everything
Maybe there can be some secret dialogue for the 1st 2 defeats, acknowledging the defeat, a secret bat transformation for the 3rd defeat that lasts the rest of the tutorial, and a secret scene of the Librarian saving the PC from the trap :D