True Calcs>Algus

[SageAcrin]

Ahhhh, Algus.

You died as you lived.

Getting punked by a bunch of people with sticks, while the player looks on and laughs.

Well, maybe that only happened in SCCs...

And maybe the player wasn't Balthier, who decided to just say the hell with it and let "Argath" get his ass kicked...

But the point is, Algus always gets what he deserves out of life.

Namely, getting his ass kicked by a bunch of scrubs, no matter how good he gets.

[SnowFire]

Aside from having to rely on Algus not failing, Balthier soon discovered that the Calculators had another very strange strength that made his goal difficult.  Every time he seemed to be winning, successfully whittling them all down and barricading Algus safely in a corner, the universe mysteriously reset itself.  He could have sworn that this same "luck" was on his side when fighting tough Hunts in his own time, but no more.  Had Ramza calculated the Eternity Equation that would enable him to control time, space, and causality itself?  Had fate abandoned the protagonist of our tale?

The answer: Yes.  Yes it had.  It's always easier to win when every time your opponent gets lucky and has his steals actually work, you just reload the game.  At least Balthier learned the price for teaming up with one such as Algus.