Shadows of War II: Laguna Beach and the Living Island

A new champion for Chaos

Xing is eager to wield the Chaos Amulet the next time she sees Drakath. Malgor asks why he should trust someone he just watched betray her former master. Xing concedes that he has a point and asks how she can prove herself to her new boss; Malgor tells her to stop insisting on vast amounts of power.

Gar says Malgor will give the amulet to someone who has proved their loyalty, but Malgor refuses to give it to Gar and lists his failures. Malgor says he has chosen a bringer of Chaos without naming that person here.

Drakath says Xing betrayed him, but for now he and the Hero must focus on recovering the amulet. The Hero suggests watching for purple tentacles. Teja has already seen them: an island appeared from nowhere, looking alive and made of tendrils and eyes. She offers her ship to take them there and says the island was already growing and moving toward shore when they left.

Captain Laguna says the amulet's power will let him rule land and sea, and says he will no longer be confined to the watery depths. The supplied scene description says he appears in a purple glow with the amulet around his neck; it does not explain how the amulet reached him. Selected native stills also show his purple glow and a pendant-like object at his chest; they establish neither an amulet grant nor a restoration mechanism.

Across the living island

At Laguna Beach, Teja asks whether the Hero has seen anything like the island before and says they must find whoever is responsible before it reaches shore. Drakath calls the island’s energy a mixture of Chaos, shadow and fire; his native NPC text likewise calls it something new.

In Eyes on You, available after Defeat Goldun, Teja sends the Hero to defeat nine Flying Fisheyes before they can report back. This and her next four tasks are explicitly once-only.

Behind the Tentacles follows: clear the tentacle on Screen 3 to open the way inward.

Xang spots that their captured ShadowChaos Brigand is still alive and asks what to do. The minion demands to be released and boasts about Captain Laguna. Drakath says not everyone can handle the Chaos Amulet's power, then threatens to show them true power. The minion calls for her master; the community staging describes her fading away in a flame of shadows. Drakath asks if she got away; Xang says yes. Teja warns that the noise may bring company, so Drakath urges them to find the minion's “master.” The dialogue confirms an escape, not a death. The selected native poses show Xang holding the minion, dark smoke beneath her, and the minion absent at the endpoint while Xang remains. These stills do not establish the escape’s timing or mechanism.

Teja then sends the Hero against eight ShadowChaos Brigands in Overwhelming Minions. Ground Kelp? follows with five ground samples from mounds on Screens 4, 5 and 6, plus eight Kelp Samples from Chaos Kelp, to investigate what the island is made of.

As they move across the island, Drakath says it seems alive and is growing out of control. Teja warns that it may be more dangerous than they thought and says they must stop it soon; the source does not explain why it is growing.

Teja’s final task, Slug 'em!, calls for ten more ShadowChaos Brigands. After it, she sends the Hero to Drakath; the native Teja handoff panel carries the same instruction.

Following the island’s energy

In Shadows and Chaos, after Slug 'em!, Drakath asks for eight Shadowchaos Samples from Chaos Kelp, Flying Fisheyes or ShadowChaos Brigands. He says that although he no longer wields the Chaos Amulet, he can still sense where its power is strongest. He needs samples to learn the resonance of this different energy.

Next, Drakath asks the hero to follow three trail markers on Screens 4, 5, and 6, then click the fleshy mound on Screen 6 to open the passage. Both objectives belong to the same once-only quest.

In the tunnel, the once-only Clear the Tunnel quest requires ten Tunnel Cleared items from ShadowChaos Brigands (Version 1) or ShadowChaos Gunners (Version 1). The source does not divide the total between those enemies.

The heart of the island

After Clear the Tunnel, Blow it up! requires five Grenades from ShadowChaos Gunners and one tentacle-clearing action on Screen 8. Drakath says the living island’s heart must be cut out before it reaches shore; the native NPC panel preserves this claim.

At the place where Chaos is strongest, Teja says they find no one and nothing except what the Hero calls a giant, beating heart. Drakath asks what “she” has done and wonders whether the heart is part of herself or a life formed from Chaos itself. The question leaves both the heart's origin and the subject of “she” unresolved.

The community direction oddly describes Drakath as “kicking” the heart “with his hand.” The native source instead selects a Poke pose, with a raised arm toward the organ; the hand and any contact remain unclear. The community staging then describes tentacles attacking him and the Hero. The Hero calls to kill it and Xang shouts for fire, but no successful fire attack is established.

The Heart of the Matter requires one Heart of the Island Slain from the Heart of Chaos. This is the tenth explicitly once-only task across Teja and Drakath’s sequence. Drakath’s follow-up urges the Hero back to the ship because the island is about to sink. The quest objective is a defeat requirement; the following scene’s dialogue does not spell out the heart’s destruction.

Escape—and new company

Xang asks whether they got it, and Drakath says they got something as the island breaks apart. The Hero calls for them to leave. Captain Laguna appears from inside the tentacles and orders them killed. As they run for the ship, Xang says something has her leg. The Hero tells the others to go and says they will get her loose; the community staging says the Hero pulls her out of the water. Captain Laguna powers up and says they will not escape, while Teja and Drakath reach the ship and urge everyone to hurry. The native Leg pose shows Xang’s lower body amid dark ground swirls, but a separate grabbing limb is unclear; the completed pull remains community staging.

The supplied description says their ship sails away while the island sinks into the ocean. On board, the Hero says it was close and Drakath credits Teja as a good pirate captain. Teja says they may have spoken too soon and looks out with a telescope. The community staging depicts a ship rising from the ocean; Teja says they have company. The source does not identify that ship or its occupants, and it does not show Captain Laguna's death or the amulet being fully recovered. The selected native horizon view supplies no reliable identity for the distant ship.

A closer look

After The Heart of the Matter, Drakath offers a further sample task. A Closer Look asks for fifteen Chaos-ShadowFlame Samples, which stack up to 75 and can drop from five listed monster types. The source gives no once-only note, so its repeatability is unstated.

The listed reward is 3,000 Gold, 5,000 Exp, and one listed ShadowChaos Mote outcome of two, three, or four items. The source does not give selection odds.