It would be very helpful if either if you told me what was confusing.
As I said before, everything's at the end.
The two guys, thomas and the other dude, open thw envelope. There lies some of the Thought. It tells them to create the intelli. I wanted the message to sound both sorta anti-climactic but momentous at the same time.
Since the test was technically successdul because the envelope was opened, no need for mind-altering drugs. Those drugs are the reason the first two agents and the first part were so trippy. They werent really old nor was reality dying, but those were drugs.
I would also say that cad's schtick with the destroyed insurgency thing was one of his lies.
You could also say that this took place in one of the weirder, more serious part of the Insurgency, hence the strange nurse and the Illogicals (i <3 the illogical idea)