Hey there! You are scripted to fail in the first encounter. Thanks for your feedback, we'll work on articulating it better in future versions!
Hey there! You can pretty much beat Fin already, however losing to her once in the very beginning is part of the plot, so we aren't planning on changing that. As I've already said, we've made sure it's no longer ambiguous whether or not the initial defeat is scripted, so that the new players too skilled to die quickly don't waste their time thinking they can win the first (scripted) encounter, you'll see those changes in 0.2.6