You have a cunning plan

The days after the battle pass quickly. Your first couple days are spent in almost complete isolation as you attempt to create a feasible plan. You go over all of your previous fights in your head, adapting old tactics, and drawing inspiration for new ones to use against Drux.

Given your past experiences, you feel your first step must be to draw Drux out of his hollow. A permanent solution requires a complete and overwhelming victory. As long as Drux resides in his hollow though, he will always have an advantage, making that impossible.

Slowly, your plan assembles. The hardest part for you is how to lure Drux into a successful ambush. Once you figure that out, you start to add various details, trying leverage your trap to permanently neutralize Drux. The process is long and difficult, and in the end, the plan you create carries much more risk than you would prefer. However, it is the best you have.

When you finally present the result of your efforts to a war council consisting of Dana, Blix, and Hrax, the discussion over the plan's flaws becomes a small argument on whether or not it is even possible in the first place. In the end, Thex has to be summoned to give his verdict. After a little more discussion, he states that it can be done.

Once the plan is agreed upon, preparations begin immediately. You personally supervise almost every aspect. A select group of spiders is chosen, and trains with you relentlessly, while at the same time you assist the others with their own efforts. You're only respite from working on the preparations are quick, hurried conversations with Dana, Hrax and Thex.

The brutal pace makes you wish that you required sleep like Dana and the spiders. Without that excuse, you **** yourself to work constantly, always looking for something that needs to be done.

Eventually, everything in in place. On the day of the ****, just before first light, you assemble your forces. There are no rousing speeches this time. Everybody knows their role and are waiting for the moment of truth. You observe the forces arrayed before you, as the forest spiders stare back at you. Finally, you give a nod, and turn around to lead your forces to attack Drux once more.