This becomes more interesting now that we have Avatar of Boris: with no familiars but with Clancy, if you have no effects active, counters get inserted in even weirder places - after the first "last location" and before the subsequent ones.
This is not the identical issue as this bug, but the root cause is the same: Counters need to go into the list of Effects, and only there - and if you have no Effects, we need to make a dummy Effects section to hold them and put it into the right place.
Fix that, and we fix Avatar of Boris and this bug report as well, I think.