LAN gaming memories

One of my fondest memories of my last year at school are of the I.T. centre at our school. Since the number of girls in our batch who took computer science as their sixth subject was much lower compared to the boys, we only got a chance to occupy the new state-of-the-art I.T. centre in our 12th grade. Ofcourse it turned out to be not so state-of-the-art but it was much better than the dingy senior computer lab so we considered ourselves lucky nonetheless.
The boys had already installed a very old version of the Unreal Tournament on the systems and we thought we would try playing just for the heck of it. All of us were beginners but somehow that game became a crazy addiction. Every computer class we used to finish our programming assignment as quickly as we could and then start our gaming sessions. Our teacher was too busy with her work to be bothered. All she saw was that our fingers were moving their way across the keyboard and she thought we were working and satisfied herself with that and ofcourse, being the angels that we were, we took full advantage of her ignorance.
We used to play "Capture the flag" the most. I remember initially shooting in the direction of every movement I came across on the screen, ending up killing my team mates half the time, which not only cost us the game but much more. The team mate I had killed would exclaim loud enough for our teacher to hear and would result in additional programs to write which would last us the entire class. We even played with the boys a couple of times but got thrashed badly because they had had much more practice, considering they had hogged the I.T. centre for two years before we could even get the privelege of entering it! (hmph!). The boys used to keep amazingly random names for their computers on the network. I mention this because one very vivid memory that I have is of a screen with words flashing on it saying "Pope kills God!" That is something you will never ever get to see! All that apart, it was just so much of a blast being a part of the computer science batch of 2005 and I would do anything to just get one more go at it! We did get better at the game by the end of the year ofcourse. We did! really!