Yep, it's their first battle, unfortunately. We've slated out various methods of killing off the characters, and some of the deaths will be serving as a means to introduce some other characters that haven't appeared yet, as well. I know the feeling about it not really being too fun, though. Killing off characters is something that'll only really happen if someone explicitly asks for their character to be killed off, or if they've disappeared for too long without a word, cause I know that it's a really sucky thing in general.