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Here’s your complete guide to every collectible and side quest in Santi Monica in Dead Island 2.

Left to right: A Shambler on the beach near a fence, Randy’s dead body with a drop cell phone, a cell phone on the bench

Finding A Totally Legit Letter

Make your way to the Lifeguard HQ safe zone.

On your way there, youll encounter a Crusher by the name of Dante.

Once you kill him, hell drop Randys Key and a journal called A Totally Legit Letter.

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You’ll find a lot of letters like these in the quests of Dead Island 2.

Go to Randys locker, which is nearby.

Opening Randys locker spawns an ambush by a Screamer.

A map of Santa Monica pier. An orange dotted line maps the route for Fool’s Gold and the orange numbered dots mark the order to approach each location

you could fight it or just flee the scene.

Either way, your next destination is clear: you have to go back to the Pier proper.

Ice Cream

The trip through the pier will likely be uneventful.

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Take the stairs that are past the CDC checkpoint and head up the pier towards the ocean.

The Ice Cream shop is a Fuse door, but thats not what youre looking for.

There will likely be a small group of zombies here, including a Screamer.

The Crusher named Dante’s corpse. In addition to materials, there’s also a phone near him, a red quest marker indicates it in Dead Island 2

Dispatch them quickly so they don’t multiply and become a problem.

Above is a picture of what you’re looking for.

If it’s not there, something went wrong or you missed a step.

A map of the Santa Monica Pier in Dead Island 2 Circled in orange is the Lifeguard HQ and where the Fool’s Gold Quest starts

Facing away from the ocean, make a left and head to the end of the row of shops.

On the right is a frozen yogurt shop (it has a blue awning).

There may be some zombies too.

A journal entry in Dead Island 2 called “A Totally Legit Letter”

Picking it up might trigger some zombies to pop up, but they should be easy to run from.

Acquiring The Treasure

You have everything you gotta collect the treasure!

Safe At Least

Return to the Lifeguard HQ.

An orange arrow points to where Randy’s locker is.

Interact with the safe.

Once the zombies are dead, interact with the safe again to collect your prize.

The Blood Rage is likely the first Legendary weapon youll get in the game.

The journal entry called “Deep Shit” in Dead Island 2

It has a fast attack speed and as a Headhunter-class weapon, headshots guarantee critical hits.

It comes fixed with the Superior Puncturator Mod which gives it big bleed damage.

For customizability,it has two empty perk slots to mod as you wish.

Randy’s locker, which can be opened with Dante’s Keys in Dead Island 2

Leave no sidequest undone and no collectible uncollected by using our complete guide to the Venice Beach area.

The player aiming a rifle at a burnt up Voltaic Screamer on the pier in Dead Island 2

A map of the Santa Monica Pier. Circled in orange is the location of Randy’s Phone

A bench next to a trash can facing the ocean. A phone is on the bench, with a red arrow pointing to it in Dead Island 2

A Map of Santa Monica pier, circled in orange is a white arrow where Dante’s Phone is

The Yogurt shop in Dead Island 2. An orange arrow points to the alley next to the shop, also indicated by an orange glow

Dante’s phone at the end of the alley, surrounded by trash in Dead Island 2

A map of Santa Monica pier in Dead Island 2, circled in orange and indicated by a red marker is the location of the Safe

A sandy alley with a Shambler. Highlighted in orange and indicated by the orange arrow is the Safe for Fool’s Gold

A bunch of zombies rushing the player, a warning shows that they’ve moved too far away from their goal in Dead Island 2

A Safe buried in sand and surrounded by debris in Dead Island 2

The quest complete screen for Fool’s Gold in Dead Island 2

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