Slappy Cromwell is the stagename Rex Fortune, Adventure Seeker, a thespian and playwright. He was represented by Palido Domingo, and the two have had a long working relationship while working at Blood Island. After his gigs began to slow down, Slappy moved to Plunder Island, in hopes of resurrecting his flagging career. He considered himself tortured artist, and worried about the lack of audience interest in the old works of the Bard. In Curse of Monkey Island, Slappy was busy preparing for his stage production, SPEARE!, his personal take of classic Shakespearean works, which was being performed at the Long John Silver Center for the Performing Arts on Puerto Pollo.