Clearing Chirp-Trade Study, Whisper Berth

Job: escort one market ethnographer to Whisper Berth and babysit a clearing-floor chirp-trade field study the desk swears is academic filler — two hops past Thul'vaneh, leased booth on the outer ring, upload the research log before the fiscal window closes. The Clearing Ethnography office wants a hull that won't pick fights on a law-0 free-port or ask why live re-registration hours need an escort at all.

Briefing: Principal Investigator Senn Pitch-Index at the Meridian Clearing Ethnography desk books Tovi Ring-Sample and her ear-mic array. You ride Khesret → Thul'vaneh Core → Whisper Berth, lease the ethnography booth one ring out from the main clearing floor, run timed floor walks during live chirp-trade, tag pitch-classes and anonymized liaison samples, export the log chain. Goblishili ear-ring culture is the whole point — vowel-shift, hand-sign, house marks read off metal at the ear. Consent placards on the booth door. Tea included. The clearing-mistress Nix Fair-Weight runs a quiet registry within earshot; treat that as courtesy, not surveillance.

Clock: medium-hard. Three-day fiscal-court sampling window synced to Thul'vaneh docket publication — miss the upload and the grant closes unpaid; hit the window and collect. Terms: ₡37,500 gross, 12% desk fee, Rank 3 minimum. Honest money for honest scholarship — except the spectrograph also tags house marks, and a log seized on this berth reads less like a thesis and more like unlicensed clearing intelligence.