Two friends and a reluctant third were shoved off the mortal coil before their time.
An irate deity did the bare minimum to move them along and get them of his books. He threw them into a world wildly different to the one they had originated in in the hopes of punishing them for the extra work their carelessness had caused him.
In his hurry he neglected to remove the abilities two of them had been gifted for the task they had been born to do.