[@Necroes][@Sophrus][@Wraithblade6] I'm not saying I didn't set up this situation for myself; it just seems to me like the people who might have gotten it to work in Lucius' favour have failed to contribute significantly thus far for rather poor reasons. As for "don't make him do it in the first place you idiot", bear in mind that Lucius is also not entirely stable himself, even if he doesn't want to admit it. If it were just letting Xepherial die, he might not have had such an extreme reaction, but consider the circumstances: for all he knows, Xepherial might well be the only Dark Angel of his time period left other than himself, and as he recalls the man's name, it may furthermore be that Xepherial has some connection to his past that's been withheld from him. He doesn't know for sure if Xepherial is important, but he's never going to find out if the guy dies on him.

And then a bunch of Chaos-aligned surgeons have come in like an evil Three Stooges act and basically bullied their way into performing who knows what kind of insane science experiments on the guy, whilst he's still conscious, ostensibly in order to save his life. I would be pissed as hell, and I'm not a paranoid sociopath of a transhuman supersoldier; unlike me, Lucius potentially has (maybe had, if things don't turn in his favour soon) the opportunity to limit the damage done to his possible future ally's psyche, but the one guy who he enlisted to help out died on him or otherwise folded like a house of cards made of dust (and is now likely to become another Chaos agent, of course), and the other guy he's trying to save is unconscious, whether or not it's an expected outcome. I admit I might be channelling my own emotions at this point, but I figure Lucius would be pretty annoyed with how things have gone right now, and that he'd be furiously trying to figure out a way to resolve at least one event in his favour.

I'm not going to comment on whether Jb is "slacking" or not, since he already explained in great detail why he can't update as regularly as he'd like, but I will reiterate that Vedius' assistance would be of great help for Lucius at this time. Furthermore, it almost seems logical in this situation, since to my knowledge Vedius does not appear to like Chaos. Maybe I misread that too, but since he's not a worshipper of Slaanesh right now...