The next storyline, A Game of You, dips away into one particular dreamer's dream. It is a story about stories, about how our stories have lives of their own and sometimes supersede our lives. In this storyline, we explore the dreamworld of Barbie (from the Doll's House arc). The Land is in trouble and it is missing its princess, Barbie, so Martin Tenbones goes to get her and bring her back to help save the land from the Cuckoo. We then switch to New York City and Barbie is living in a building filled with a cast of characters. She has separated from Ken and is hanging out with a pre-op transexual named Wanda. A floor up is a lesbian couple Foxglove and Hazel, then there is Thessaaly (a 3,000-year-old witch) and George (a servant of the Cuckoo). Barbie and Wanda are window shopping when they bump into a homeless woman who is scared of dogs. As they wander, they see a crowd and police gathering nearby. They stop to see and it turns out that Martin Tenbones made it to teh waking world and he leaps to Barbie, causing the police to open fire. Before he dies, he gives her the Porpentine and asks her to save the Land. Barbie puts on the Porpentine and is whisked away to dreamland where her adventures begin. She is with Luz, Wilkinson and Prinado. They must journey to the Isle of Thorns and use the Hierogram to free the land for Murphy's sake (Murphy being the god of the Land). Back in New York City, Barbie is basically comatose, and the rest of her friends are asleep as George sends nightmare birds to deal with them.

Everyone except Thessaly is lost in deep nightmare. Thessaly awakens and kills the bird and goes and kills George. She then gathers everyone else and is determined to understand what's going on. She cuts off George's face and speaks with his dead soul to get an idea of the Cuckoo's plots (to capture Barbie of course). Since the Cuckoo has messed with Thessaly, she wants revenge, so she summons down the moon (literally) to open a path into Barbie's dreamworld. Wanda cannot go, because she is a man, and the moon is a goddess. Incidentally, the calling down of the moon wreaks havoc with the weather, steering a hurricane straight for New York City. Wanda takes the homeless woman in to get her out of the weather. Meanwhile, Barbie has journeyed far in her dream, reaching the Brightly Shining Sea. The Cuckoo captures her and reveals itself as Barbie when she was a kid (and her kidlike dream self has been living in this dream every since Barbie quit dreaming because of Rose and the vortex in the Doll's House). The cuckoo then explains that she is like a real cuckoo left in the nest of another bird to kick out and kill the other chicks. And she's stuck in Barbie's dream and wants to escape now. She hypnotizes Barbie and they go to destroy the Hierogram. While there, Thessaly, Foxlove and Hazel arrive. The Cuckoo tricks and hypnotizes them as well and then gets Barbie to destroy the Hierogram and Porpentine. This triggers the appearance of the maker of this land, Murphy, or Dream of the Endless. It turns out that Dream made this land for a former love, Alianore. And now that the pact has been fulfilled, he unmakes the world and all of its inhabitants. Since Barbie is the one who ended the compact, Dream offers her a boon. Barbie decides to not punish the Cuckoo and instead asks that she and her friends be safely returned to the waking world. So, the Cuckoo flies away to other worlds. Back in New York City, the hurricane hits full force and demolishes the building. Wanda and the old woman are killed, although Barbie survives because she was under the woman. The storyline concludes with Barbie attending Wanda's funeral in her/his Midwestern town. It turns out Wanda's family never approved of her decision, so he has been made up to look like a man on his deathbed. Barbie sits through the funeral and then after everyone else has left, scrawls, Wanda, on the tombstone in hot pink fuschia lipstick. On the bus ride out of town, she dreams of Wanda and death, and they wave goodbye to her. We end with Barbie's realization that "everybody has a secret world inside of them."