Without any context for what you are trying to do, I suspect that you should be using my_buffedstat($stat) each time you need it instead of assigning...
It looks like startCountingTemporary was added by me, and it's actually for counters that don't start until the next "normal" encounter (for a weird...
Or there's "create * magical sausage", which will make and grind meat paste and such to make sausages, which is about as safe as that gets since it's...