Tcho-Tcho

The **Tcho-Tcho** are a [sic] primitive tribe of Asiatic-appearance people (well, they look like people) found living in the remote corners of Asia. The name has a long legacy of darkness attached to it. Among the Tibetans, Tcho is a word for black magician,' 'evil monster' an 'destroyer.' Among the Hmong of Laos and Vietnam, they are known as Tchaw-Tchaw, 'the Eaters.' They are universally hated by their neighbors, loathed for their fearsome practices and their worship of inhuman gods. These are a people in tune with the Mythos. Naturally, the CIA thought that arming them to fight communism during the Vietnam war was a great idea.

# The Combined Hypothesis

The real life James Haughton works as an anthropologist in Southeast Asia. James has always been fascinated by the Tcho-Tcho. He read a lot of the different hypotheses, biological models etc in the Ice Cave, but wanted one that would let them all be true, as well as tie the Tcho-Tcho more deeply to the Mythos. So he came up with this.

In a nutshell, due to an ancient Mythos connection, Tcho-Tcho assimilate the genomes of the things they eat. If they want to stay (roughly) human, they HAVE to eat humans. On the other hand, if they have the POW to assimilate other things without mutating to death, they can become insectile hive queens, naked mole rats or whatever else they can stuff down their throats. Including nice white boys and girls.

This is in 5 parts:

1. A copy of Report on Subject 312 liberated from MJ-12's Project DANCER that discusses the study of a captured Tcho-Tcho.
2. A Tcho-Tcho origin myth, as recorded by a French anthropologist c.1921 (made by chucking a few relevant myths from the area into a blender and adding extra Mythos).
3. “What's really going on” explains why the Tcho-Tcho are the way they are.
4. Fiction: An Anthropologist Encounters the Tcho-Tcho.
5. Shotgun Shells (below): A few one-paragraph scenarios based on this information.

### Shotgun Shells

Here are five possible scenario hooks, originally created by *James Haughton*

**Sigma Delta Tcho**: Rumours that a Frat house is involved in the disappearance of students lead a team to a university fraternity run by white Tcho Tcho, busily chewing their way through the student population. If captured rather than killed outright, unless fed humans or thoroughly boiled food they dissolve into cancerous goop.

**CSI Tcho Tcho**: A police investigation into a serial rapist isn't getting anywhere. The MO is the same but the assailant's description seems to subtly change each time, as does the sperm sample, making a mockery of forensic science. And every time they have a potential suspect, he seems to have disappeared before the crime was committed, or turns up dead and dismembered after it. It's a Tcho Tcho who is eating fresh male victims between rapes (he hopes to spread the Tcho Tcho genes) so his genetic signature and appearance keep changing to partially match his previous meal(s). As the suspects (the previous meals) keep disappearing or being found dead, people start to believe that a vigilante is bringing rapists who the police can't catch to justice and he becomes a folk hero (insert Batman theme here).

**Piggy in the Middle**: A Tcho-Tcho child is seized and placed in care by the state. After a few months he mutates into a half-pig (pork sausages for dinner every night), attacks the carers with his new tusks and escapes.

**Blood Will Out**: Due to a genocidal clash in Cambodia, a Tcho Tcho infant is abandoned and found by an NGO, who pass her on to an adoption agency. She is adopted by an American couple who are strict vegetarians, and their cooking techniques mean that her mutational capabilities are never triggered. When she hits puberty her

pheremones are detected by some other Tcho Tcho who kidnap her. Can the investigators rescue her before her innate hunger for human is awakened (probably not)?

**Rules of Engagement**: Delta Green investigates rumours that MJ 12 is subjecting everyone of mixed-Asian appearance in a district to medical testing (a follow on from Doc 1).

**Meat from the Deep Freeze**: Agents investigating Point 103 ("An Item of Mutual Interest") discover that a Tcho-Tcho sorcerer investigating the past of his race has beaten them to it.