When there’s a queue of people that stretches around the block of one of the largest houses in the ward, you just know something good is about to happen. When Namafel Inc. announced that it would be performing Lalafells of the Caribbean — a Final Fantasy 14 parody of Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean — players came out in droves hoping to score a front-row seat.
For those who didn’t snag a spot in the audience, the show was streamed on Twitch for all to enjoy. Lalafells of the Caribbean proved so popular that the team has since reprised their roles and performed an additional show to meet the demand of avid Eorzean theatre-goers. The popularity surprised the Namafel Inc. crew, who had initially been worried about filling the seats.
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“We definitely didn't expect this kind of popularity, to say the least,” Kael Ornitier, one of the founders of Namafel Inc., tells me. “We were worried at first if we'd even fill out the 65-seat audience, and we wanted to allow actors to invite their friends in to watch the premiere due to those concerns. We did not anticipate any queues, let alone the queue that wrapped around an entire plot! We feel truly blessed that it garnered the attention that it did, and we're very thankful that people took such an incredible level of interest in what we love doing!”
Namafel Inc. was founded in November 2020 after Kael decided to spice things up in-game and take a break from his usual raiding to dip into housing design. Having given his little apartment a makeover with his newfound skills, it soon became a hangout spot for Kael and his friends, Duns Mordio, Z'viktria Fhey, and Hazak Zealot. It was there that the
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