Yea the dude died even though I stayed down and saved Jenny. Lammmmeeeeeeeeeeee. Game is still great but that is kinda irritating that I need a feat (not a skill check) in-order to save that dude.
You must have taken too long. You absolutely do not need the feat to save the guy. Once upon a time, many versions ago, you did; but now you can just hop on down, clear a path to Jenny, get her out, and they both bicker their way off into the sunset. The caveset. The neverchanging gloom of meager subterranean existence. The bleak darkness of the post-post-apocalyptic future. See? It's a happy story. >.>
Assuming you don't save them for the XP and then gank them for their loot.