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We had an arc in our kingmaker game involving the characters trying to matchmake for their far too serious sorcerer/Magister who claimed he was 'married to his work' which everyone assumed was just because he was too shy/awkward to talk to girls.
Rom com shenanigans ensued as they tried to set up dates, arranged marriages, there were rumors he was a play boy after he danced with half the single young women of the upper class in one night due to all the PCs vouching for different partners.
And the entire time he basically dodged trouble by setting the girls up with others, counter planning and generally being polite but resistant to the idea.
Things eventually came to a head when it came to light that someone had seen him riding a unicorn, so everyone naturally assumed he was still a virgin.
Turned out he was friends with the Unicorn and it was taking him off most nights to visit his Nymph lover, the Bard-Kings reaction was amazing.
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A couple months ago, the game I was running turned into Weekend at Bernie's for a session.
The PCs were trying to track down this one guy who was delivering cursed paintings that murdered the recipients. They knew he was just the courier, so they wanted to catch him and interrogate him so they could find out what he knew about his employer. They finally catch up to him just as he was walking up to a house to deliver another painting.
They start approaching the guy. Suddenly, something invisible attacks him (because his employer wanted to tie up loose ends once he was done with his job). None of them can see invisibility, so they don't know what's going on, but they figure they'd better get rid of whatever's trying to kill the guy so they can question him.
So our warpriest decides to cast burst of radiance. Affects an area, so it'll get the invisible thing without having to see it, and only hurts evil creatures, so collateral damage should be minimized, right?
Problem was, the creature attacking him was an invisible stalker. Neutral, not evil. But the guy they were trying to catch sure was. He'd already taken some damage when the stalker attacked him, so the spell flat-out killed him. (I had to hold back a laugh when the player told me what he was casting.)
Now they're standing on someone else's lawn with a dead body in a very fancy part of town. They want to keep him around long enough for the warpriest to cast speak with dead on him tomorrow so they can still get some information out of him. So they decide to knock on the door.
"Excuse me, ma'am, our friend here has had a little too much to drink and needs to lie down for a few minutes; could you help?"
Pass their bluff check, get the investigating done at the house that they need to do (all the while pretending the guy is TOTALLY alive), head back to the inn, successfully bluff their way through again, and leave the guy in one of their rooms with a big hat and a bottle in his hand until the next morning.
PCs.
I have a Quotes Forum running on my Wrath of the Righteous Obsidian Portal wiki, filled with gems from each session.
A few standouts from our older Kingmaker game include the following:
The Arcanist PC asks Perlivash, a Fairy Dragon, how old he is - my original response was "A while", but one of my current players suggested altering it to "Blue" (Fairy Dragon scales change color as they age, going through the colors of the rainbow in sequence).
The aforementioned Fairy Dragon started a local "April Fool's Day" holiday. After the events of Blood for Blood the holiday came again and one of the players left a ton of scissors in a certain NPC's bar...