Inspired by the Dune series (realized while watching the dune miniseries that aired on the SciFi channel) "Frank Herbert's Dune".
see: wikipedia - Dune TV miniseries
They said: "Subdue the maker" then two people grabbed and held the Worm. While the two people held on the wormand squeezed it the worm finally spewed a liquid into a bowl a third person was holding.
person 1: I'm such a nerd, I told some people that I had other things to do.
1. quiet; inhibited; repressed; controlled: After the argument he was much more subdued.
2. lowered in intensity or strength; reduced in fullness of tone, as a color or voice; muted: subdued light; wallpaper in subdued greens.
3. (of land) not marked by any striking features, as mountains or cliffs: a subdued landscape.