The Plateu of Leng is, to me, one of the most confusing things in Lovecraft's fiction.

It's simply delightful how you talk about Lovecraft's lore, those books always make you blow your imagination.

The similarities between The Tcho Tcho and late surviving Homo non-Sapiens recently found in central/southeast Asia are interesting and tying the two together is an interesting direction that I do not know if anyone has proposed before. The Denisovans had genes that in modern humans code for high altitude low oxygen survival and others that code for survival in the extreme cold. All records of late surviving Homo non-Sapiens found in the Asia pacific region were incredibly short so people living in a similar region being slightly short makes sense, not exactly as the Homo Floresiensis and Homo Luzonensis I am referencing were likely short due to island dwarfism but it is close enough to a reasonable line to work for this science fiction. IDK I feel like it adds something to say they are not Homo Sapiens and have been living on and around the Plateau of Leng since before Homo Sapiens first arrived in the area.

These videos have been incredibly useful for building "Delta Green" scenarios, you have my thanks.

Thanks, Sandy; these are always great. I've always thought of the Tcho Tchos as basically like Human equivalents of the Drow. Their skill with biological manipulation makes me think of the Mi-Go... perhaps the Tcho Tchos could have had extensive contact with, and received some training from, the Fungi From Yuggoth? As an aside, before I ever heard the name pronounced, in my head I called them "the T'ko T'ko People." It wasn't until I read the _Delta Green: Countdown_ sourcebook, which had a chapter discussing the modern Tcho Tchos living in San Francisco and gave alternate names for them (like 'Chauchas") that I realized it was pronounced more like "Cho Cho."

The leader with the swollen head and great intelligence made me think of the Mekon from Dan Dare. (:

A great video on the unjustly forgotten Tcho Tchos. On nitpick, I've read Klein's 'Black Man with a Horn' and I believe he stated that the Tcho Tchos in it came from Malaya. Or Malaysia. Or whatever it is now. BTW, talking Klein, if you've ever read his 'Children of the Kingdom', did the subterranean-dwellers in that story seem at all like the Tcho Tchos to you?

I absolutely love Michael Bukowski’s illustration of the tcho tchos. Absolutely unsettles the crap outta me.

I've noticed you have not yet covered Tsathoggua and its formless spawns, and I think they would pose as great material to be treated with your informative and scientific approach.

Thanks. I also like David Conyers take in his Peel series, and the descriptions set out in Pagan Publishing/Arc Dream Pub. Delta Green games

Holy crap, this is informal. Good stuff Sandy. Thanks.

Huh... i'd always seen the Tcho Tcho as an alien species which looks like us and uses that to its maximum advantage to consume us from within.

Okay, I am definitely using these things when I run something in the east Asian setting. Maybe even as a side quest during Masks. 🤔

The Tcho Tchos appear in short story "The Goat Mother" by Pierre V Comotois

Mmmm… Tcho-tcho Beef! 🥩🤤

2:40. Good luck getting any fluids as a carry on onto a plane nowadays Mr. Tcho Tcho.

a masked okkator whose mask is taken off at the end would be a great slasher movie

They sound very similar to the dacoits used by Sax Rohmer's Dr. Fu Manchu. It would be a fascinating tale combining the Mythos with Dr. Fu Manchu.

Now I think we need a second volume of the Anatomical Guide.

I remember the first time I was aware of them was from a D20 supplement…

I have turned the Vanishing Conjurer into a campaign setting, and my next session will be the big finale. I was wondering where to go next, and the Tcho Tchos look like the solution. I'll put a ghetto of them in San Francisco somewhere. The generic modification angle is going to be really fun to work with.

How delightful.

Hey I was just researching these guys

Love this one! The first time I saw that chocolate I had to send pictures to Spence. I haven't read the stories you mentioned, but now I really want to.

Very cool stuff, Sandy. Any chance of exploring who and what the Ancients are? I love the psychologically alien but physiologically human factions you included in Cthulhu Wars.

The Tscho Tscho should not have been soulless but soulful giving you two power for each Acolythe sacrificed. ;)

I have waited for this video for so long. Thank you!

Great video! I'd always thought of them as a Lovecrafian version of Manly Wade Wellman's Shonokin.

I find it interesting that stories of hostile "hobbits" have come out of SE Asia the past decade or so.

"This man is Caucasian!" (Pakistan sweating nervously)

Besides the T.E.D Klein story, what are other good tcho-tcho sources? I'm interested in finding out more about tcho-tcho resturaunts and their human ganglia paste -I mean "white pork sauce" 😋

This really makes me want to use the Tcho Tcho for a modern day Call of Cthulhu game now!

Have a like and a comment to help get the word out. This content is extremely underrated.

I remember only a little bit about the Tcho Tcho from reading different books in the Mythos. I read Klein's "Black Man with a horn" about a decade ago and really liked it. I'll have to check it out again. Do you recommend and books or movies that heavily feature the Tcho Tcho? Thanks!

The problem is that the 'new generation ' of Tcho Tcho are "out and proud.' The stars are aligning. in fact Lil' Songtong, a Tcho Tcho rapper, is gaing popularity among Malaysian and Indonesian poor and disaffected youth. Groups pressing for their rights have convinced local media that their status is unimportant as they are ' very few in number.' Groups like these and Young Innsmouth on the East Coast are being embraced as 'diverse and valuable.' Not surprised.

The Ceremonies by T. E. D. Klein is one of my favorite novels. Just saying.

The Tcho Tcho, sadly, are described as basically being the most blatantly racist interpretations of a Chinese person with their worst traits (as Lovecraft perceived them) turned up to the max.

The Tcho Tcho definitely sound like something from Cronenberg

Great video!

Depends on how you define Caucasoid. I would say Europeans, North Africans and West Asians fall under that. East Asians (and American Natives) I would call... um... can you still say Mongoloid?

It's not so simple, in India with the Caste system. Those of Dravidian decent are not Caucasians. The Indo-Europeans invaded and mixed with the Dravidians.

Sounds like the Tcho Tcho have a more grown-up and practical relationship with Reality than most humans. They secure the best future they can for themselves and their people. They might not be nice people, but they're still people, and they manage to live by their own priorities. It sounds a lot better than running through the streets screeching "The things I have seen!" or retreating into "a New Dark Age" or promiscuously jumping into the first tentacled maw which comes along. Rather like the ghouls that way. A Lesser Independent Race (to use your terminology) beats a display in the Krueger Supermarket. They can adapt themselves to the world and the world to them. They deal with the gods but, as Granny Weatherwax says "there's no call go go believing in 'em." They have things better figured out than we do, a lesson in facing up to the way things are rather than pretending they are the way we wish they were

WAIT, is this why people in Japan love Call Of Cthulhu

haha, I cant help but giggle on with this video. Chocho in spanish is about the same as pussy or vag, so ...hearing about a tribe of tchotcho's living hidden in the jungle ....hahaha XD God I cant help it

They are mentioned in multiple Lovecraft works? Anyone have a definitive list? I thought I've read his entire works, but can't recall them being mentioned often.

Idea: tcho tcho restaurant co-opened with a ghoul and a night gaunt. Shenanigans happen.

I'd turn on notifications for your channel, but apparently the content is "made for kids".