Schlock Mercenary

Today's installment raises interesting questions about what this mini-gate is actually programmed to do. A wallet goes through intact, but an armored soldier with a multi-cannon strapped to his back is stripped naked? What's up with that?

First, it's helpful to note that this gate is not a travel-gate. It's more like an auxiliary input for the gate-copy system. Second, as you might imagine, some things are more dangerous than others. Guns and armor on a soldier are far more dangerous than a wallet (unless the wallet has large amounts of untraceable currency in it, and falls into the wrong [read that "my"] hands).

Third, the comedy inherent in a large, angry man being stripped naked over and over again, while being forced to watch the process and be embarrassed for himself in arithmetically increasing, serially experiential units of mortification is just too rich for words. Which, of course, is why we use pictures here at Schlock Mercenary.