Dave, that's not quite true.
We wanted to stop production of the pearl thingys, and didn't manage to do so. (Altho the dodgy illusion guy did blag us and tell us that breaking the eye would accomplish that ....)
And the thing that Lorric definitely wasn't going to do ... Well he didn't! Lorric took no part in breaking the eye. Now the other party members who did as the demon requested ....