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So, I have a character whom I adore very greatly. Akakino Chouko. She's a 4-tailed Kitsune, built using the Kitsunemore Campaign book and hybridized to PFRPG using the Bard class. She's multi-classed Bard/Nogitsune/Cleric/Gate Crasher (Can you tell we use a LOT of supplements?) and has max ranks in Bluff.
Combining max ranks in Bluff with Skill Focus (Bluff), the kitsune Fox Magic Masterful Liar (+20 on next Bluff check), the spell Glibness and an ABSURD Charisma score... she defaults to a 70 before a d20 is thrown on Bluff checks.
I've often joked with my Beloved Spouse (Kobold Chorus: "We love you!") that Chouko is going to try the Test of the Starstone the next time she's in Absalom and try and become the Goddess of Lies.
My question to you, dear readers, is what's your best gaming story involving a Bluff check and a complete prevarication? What was the result of this fib?
Ah, there are so many.
I had one player convince a group of goblins that Lathander was an ascended hobgoblin that became a god in order to help convert them. At least he convinced them that this was part of the church teachings about Lathander's origins.
The same player would often, just for fun, bluff the party paladin to see if she would catch on to his more grandiose lies. He often "helped" her, arguing her side, but using insanely over the top lies to help argue her point, which would drive her crazy.
Another player was running a cleric of Pharasma with no ranks in bluff at all that rolled in the 15-20 range multiple times in a row to talk a gang of thugs sent to attack the party to convince them that their boss had actually set them up to be taken out by the adventuring party because he was tired of paying them.
I played a character in RCR Star Wars that broke into a house where a contact was being held, and the plan was that I would go in through the front door, and my partner would rush in through the back door, but there was another room inside the structure we hadn't accounted for, so I rushed into the room before he could enter the room, and I drew fire from a whole slew of Imperials.
I told them that my character was from ISB and that he had a tip that this was a Rebel safehouse, and that my team was on their way from the spaceport. They didn't exactly believe me, but they did listen to me long enough for my back up to finally make it through the kitchen on the other side of the building.
The ninja in our Kingmaker campaign tried to bluff his mother about the preponderance of brothels he's (as in, it was his suggestion, and the Queen let him roll with it) had built in every city in the nation.
She asked if he thought about what the people employed there go through, etc. He tried to convince her he was thinking of them being able to provide for their families. He failed miserably.
His mother said "I'm your mother, you know you can't lie to me."