"Silas," she said, leaning over a tankard of grog. "You’re fighting with blinkers on. You see the mast, but you miss the boarding axe. You see the waves, but you miss the shark."
She reached into his soul—or rather, into his —and pushed his Field of View (FOV) slider from the standard 60 all the way up to 90 . Silas stepped back onto his Sloop, and his jaw dropped. "Silas," she said, leaning over a tankard of grog
One evening, while docked at Plunder Outpost, Silas met a legendary pirate named Wide-Eye Wendy. She didn't look different, but she moved with a strange confidence, as if she had eyes in the back of her head. You see the waves, but you miss the shark
"The 'speed effect,'" Wendy smirked. "A wider view makes the world move quicker. You'll feel like a gazelle instead of a turtle." She didn't look different, but she moved with
Captain Silas was a "sixty-degree" man. For years, he sailed the Sea of Thieves looking through what his crew called "the spyglass squint." He saw the world in a tight, narrow box. It was fine for hitting a single skeleton, but it was a nightmare in a storm.
Here is a short story about a pirate discovering the tactical power of a wider perspective. The Captain’s Wider Horizon